Member Ric… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Apologies if someone has already posted this story from The New York Times: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/morgan-library-to-digitize-... Link to comment
Member spe… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I'm not entirely thrilled with the Morgan's web interface to view digitized documents. Kind of like looking through a keyhole. Link to comment
Member Dun… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 considered to be the first significant printed book in the West Why doesn’t anyone ever fact check that and realize that Gutenberg printed multiple editions of Donatus before he printed the bible? Link to comment
Member Dun… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Donatus was a grammarian who wrote Latin grammar primers. A little dull now, but his work was quite important for teaching Matin grammar to people so they could read things like Latin bibles. Link to comment
Member spe… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Specifically, the Donatus work is his Ars Minor. Link to comment
Member Sim… Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 oh, cool, thanks! maybe in the eyes of the author Ars Minor is not significant? Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 The text does say "the first significant printed book in the West"... I'm not saying that a survey of Latin grammar is more or less significant than the Christian bible, mind you, but the journalist seems to have done her research. :-) If someone were to ask me which of these two books has had more influence in Western history, I would have to say it was the Christian bible. Not to mention the fact that thanks to Gutenberg it could be mechanically reproduced. That changed things, too. Link to comment
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